NORMAN CONNORS, Dark Of Light USA LP Herbie Hancock Gary Bartz Stanley Clarke

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Norman Connors – Dark Of Light Label: Buddah Records – BDS 5675 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Jazz Style: Free Jazz, Soul-Jazz, Fusion A1 Dark Of Light Arranged By, Written-By – Alan Gumbs* 11:45 A2 Butterfly Dreams Arranged By – Norman Connors Written-By – Stanley Clarke 5:15 B1 Laughter Written-By – Stanley Clarke 2:55 B2 Black Lightnin 11:50 B3 Twilight Zone 1:30 B4 Song For Rosa 2:00 Alto Saxophone – Gary Bartz Bass – Buster Williams (tracks: A1), Cecil McBee, Stanley Clarke (tracks: B1) Bassoon, Alto Flute – Alfred Williams* (tracks: B1) Congas – Lawrence Killian Creative Director [Creative Packaging Direction] – Milton Sincoff Drums – Norman Connors Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Ted Dunbar (tracks: A1) Electric Piano – Elmer Gibson (tracks: B1) Electric Piano, Piano – Herbie Hancock Engineer – Carl Paroulo*, Henry Maslin* Flute – Art Webb Percussion – Gerald Roberts (tracks: B1), Henry Palmer (tracks: B1), Warren Smith Photography By [Cover] – Joel Brodsky Photography By [Liner] – Charles Stewart*, Robert Zahn Piano – Alan Gumbs* (tracks: B2) Producer – Dennis Wilen, Skip Drinkwater Strings – Gail Dixon*, Jerry Little, Pat Dixon Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Carlos Garnett Trumpet – Eddie Henderson Vocals – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ellen DeLeston, Michael Brown (3) All selections written by Norman Connors and published by Norman Connors Music Co. / Kama Sutra Music, Inc. (BMI) unless otherwise stated. Recorded at: The Hit Factory, N.Y.C. and Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pa. This LP was previously released as Cobblestone CST 9035 (1973)

USA VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. CORNER CUT.  INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, BUT SOME HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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